Thomas Alva Edison Foundation

“Thomas kuhn, brian wolff, lisa wood, john schlenker, victoria calderon, and adam cooper have a business relationship as they were all employed by eei, a related organization for which kuhn, wolff, wood, and schlenker served as officers.”

“The organization has two classes of members. Class a membership is comprised of the edison electric institute. Class b membership shall be the persons constituting the voting members of edison electric institute.”

“The class a member shall have the exclusive right to elect directors to succeed the initial directors.”

“The class a member shall have no limitation on the voting power or authority, except as may be provided in the bylaws. The class a member shall have the power to repeal or amend the bylaws, or adopt new bylaws. Class b members are provided the rights, privileges, obligations and responsibilities of class b members as prescribed by the bylaws.”

“The form 990 is prepared by the organization's outside cpa firm and reviewed by organization's management in advance of filing.”

“The organization has adopted the written conflict of interest policies of edison electric institute, inc (eei) for all officers, directors, and key employees. Eei's employee handbook and code of conduct have been distributed to all employees and are on eei's intranet site. These documents include, in part, eei's core values, operating principles, conflict of interest policy and whistleblower policy, which includes a confidential 800 telephone number. Periodic reminders are given. Eei has a written director's conflict of interest policy, applicable to all members of its board of directors, which was formally adopted by eei's board. Periodic reminders are given. Eei also has a corporate compliance officer, a vendor code of conduct policy, and a policy and procedure for reporting violations of the code of conduct as well as concerns about the use of eei's corporate resources and financial reporting. There has not been a violation of the conflict of interest policies; although we stand ready to enforce the policies in appropriate circumstances.”

“The organization's articles of incorporation and conflict of interest policy are available upon request. The organization's audited financial statements are not made available to the public; however, the balance sheet and income statement can be found on the form 990 which is made available to the public on various web sites and upon request.”

“Consulting fees: program service expenses 171,614. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 171,614.”

“2020 pto accrual reversal 6,332.”